Thanks Jeff,
regarding having to use both HTTP and cURL -- or perhaps only
the latter for code simplicitly -- that will probably remain the case for
quite a while still. To help with that situation, I put together an
over-arching
'webclient' library that abstracts over the transport layers (HTTP, curl,
curl-shell) giving you an API that's consistent across backends.
I could release that at some point if there's sufficient interest..
It also adds WebDAV support.
Re: curl - as an author of the 'curl' package, I'm also keen on finding
ways of making that better -- both in terms of using the underlying lib
functionality and API on the Haskell side. Suggestions/contribs most
welcome.
Ditto for HTTP too, of course :)
--sigbjorn
On 1/16/2009 05:47, Jeff Heard wrote:
Just as a reported speedup, downloading a 5MB file from my own local
machine (via http) went from 1.05 secs to 0.053 secs. Yes, it's
really an order of magnitude better. Performance now is on par or
slightly better than cURL (however to get more protocols than HTTP,
you'll still need the ubiquitous cURL library)
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Sigbjorn Finne
<sigbjorn.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I guess it's time to publish more widely the availability of a modernization
of
the venerable and trusted HTTP package, which I've been working on
off&on for a while.
Bunch of changes, but the headline new feature of this new version
is the parameterization of the representation of payloads in both HTTP
requests and responses. Two new representations are supported, strict and
lazy
ByteStrings. Some people have reported quietly pleasing speedups as a result
of this change. (If they want to report numbers, please do..)
Another change/fix in this release is the _alleged_ fix to the long-standing
bug
in the use of absolute URIs vs absolute paths in requests (for non-proxied
and
proxied use.) Give it a go..
Notice that the HTTP-4000.x version will require you to make some
modifications to your existing HTTP-using code -- I've tried to keep the API
backwards compatible minimal despite the change in functionality and
underlying types. If you do not want to deal with this right away, please
introduce a <4000 dependency on the HTTP package in your .cabal files.
I've also taken on the maintainership of the package, with the highly
esteemed
Bjorn Bingert no longer having the usual abundance of cycles to look after
it (hope I'm not misrepresenting facts here, Bjorn!) However, I've yet to
gain access to www.haskell.org and update http://www.haskell.org/http,
so for now you may pick up a new version the lib via
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP
GIT repo for HTTP-4000 / HTTPbis is here
git://code.galois.com/HTTPbis.git
enjoy
--sigbjorn
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